The contract demon's dead body gradually dissolved into a puddle of sticky foam, and in a sense, he was also liberated.

If nothing else, ninety-nine years later, Namen Bingzhu will be fully resurrected somewhere in the Nine Prisons of Bato.

And then he was freed from the shackles of the femme fatale.

The small flag was wrapped in bubbles, and slowly floated from its remnants in front of the young blue dragon, as if it was at its mercy.

"This devil's corpse is handed over to me to dispose of. ”

Seeing that Quest put away the flag, the steampunk half-lich asked duly, and received permission without surprise.

Therefore, the death process of the contract demon was distorted, and I don't know whether to say lucky or unlucky, he still failed to die in the end.

In other words, the desired liberation was not obtained.

A legendary spellcaster mastered in the spells of the Necromancy, Sneijder imprisoned the demon's soul and took it into his possession.

"Take over the Bartow garrisons here, and get the bowels of the city ready to move again to digest the ...... City of Crime. ”

After skimming through the information he had just gotten from the flag, Quest pulled out a brick-sized radio communicator and gave the order.

Originally, he was still thinking of bombing this walled city, but the flag died down in an instant, and the defenders of Batzu on the city of sin also put their swords into the sheath, took the initiative to open the city gate, and lifted their guard.

These actions made the degenerate scholars stunned, because they were not on Bato's side, so they were not affected by Stim's banner, and they felt overwhelmed.

"What about those devils...... Surrendered?"

A degenerate scholar who was smoking a pipe and spitting out smoke while calculating ballistic parameters couldn't help but ask in surprise.

It was not the words that answered him, but the hilt of the barbed demon gunner's knife behind his back - a light knock knocked down the mouthy guy down.

The pipe was crushed under the Fallen Scholar, and by the time he woke up again, he had lost his well-groomed chest hair.

Of course, that was for later, and at this time, the City of Sinful Karma had no time to take care of, and everyone was busy withdrawing from this place as soon as possible.

The new prosperous town that was waiting to be fed was actively activated again, incarnated as an eight-legged giant spider, and "swallowed" the city of sin into the intestines of the city.

With the experience of the last time, the efficiency of those yards and factories in the bowels of the city has improved a lot, and it didn't take long to digest the sin karma city.

Quest also had a moment to watch the half-lich Sneid's experiments and see how he fiddled with the remnants of the contract demon.

As we all know, the vast majority of creatures in the lower realm are "spirit and flesh one" existences, and their souls and bodies cannot be separated by external forces.

Snead imprisoned the dying soul of the Contract Demon, and the frothy entry of his corpse into the city was forcibly stopped.

Since the head was blown off by the young blue dragon, the first work the half-lich did was to add a head to the guy.

The material is very particular, Snead took out his collection of nine-headed demon dragon a deputy head - this kind of deputy head has no brain, so there is no way to think and remember independently, and there is only a part of the brain stem and gray matter inside, which can be used to control the body activity of the nine-headed demon dragon.

"This is a very interesting experiment, the soul and body of the contract demon are a unified whole, but what happens when its physical composition is replaced by the flesh and blood of other creatures, few records have been passed down before......

Seeing that the onlookers still didn't know much about it, he continued to explain: "The old ghost lord before Bato had created a new kind of Batzu devil called the Stitching Demon, and she sewed together different devil limbs to complete her creation. ”

"The Stitch Demon is not any kind of demon in the lifetime of those limbs, but a kind of independent Batzu, which shows that the creature that was created has developed a self-identity. ”

"What I'm doing now is trying to use the flesh and blood of mortal things to fuse into the body of the devil that is entangled with his soul, and see what kind of creature the new species has been created. ”

Sneijder tried his best to explain, but observers like the three ogre brothers could not understand the significance of this.

But Quisi was different, when he heard the word "self-identity", the young blue dragon fell into a reverie.

He thought of his own crossing.

Even though he has extremely deep memories of his past life, Quest still has doubts: is he really still his old self?

If the birth of the Stitching Demon Race is actually a manifestation of self-identity, then their souls must be very different from before.

In Quest's memory, there was a series of famous paradoxes in ancient Greece called "The Ship of Theseus":

In honor of Theseus, the prince who killed the Minotaur, the Athenians kept the black galleon he used to travel to Crete.

Over time, the planks of the sailboat inevitably decayed and had to be renovated year after year.

In the end, there was not a single piece of material on the ship of Theseus that had not been replaced, and the whole ship was completely different from the original material.

So is this ship still the "ship of Theseus"?

The Good Ones gathered all the materials that had been replaced, and used them to rebuild an identical sailboat.

So which of the newly built ships, or the ships with all the materials replaced, is the real "Ship of Theseus"?

Quest once thought about it, and he thought that the reason for this problem was that the "ship of Theseus" did not have self-awareness.

The so-called "ship of Theseus" is nothing more than a name given to it, and this ship exists in the eyes of its observers.

After pondering for a long time, Quest suddenly realized in his heart - "Today's me is no longer yesterday's me."

Although he was just muttering to himself, in his heart, it was no less than Huang Zhong Da Lu suddenly sounded, as if he had been empowered.

Whether it's a human or a dragon, Quest today is different from yesterday, and there will be some differences from tomorrow.

So why bother with the question of who is who, Quest is not the rotten ship of Theseus, its very existence is the best proof of having self-knowledge.

It occurred to him that mortals worship gods, and that those mortals are observers, and that gods are like "ships of Theseus."

The realm of the priesthood, which represents the various abstract concepts of the multiverse, has not yet given birth to self-knowledge, so the gods will change.

Suddenly, Quis remembered a rumor.

It is said that the god who once went the deepest in the realm of death, the ancient god of death, Jeger, voluntarily stripped himself of his priesthood and gifted it to other newly promoted gods - which is very different from the choice of other deities who are highly exclusive.

Perhaps, not all concepts have not yet given birth to self-identity. ”